Phantasmic Links 3.5.06
Every religion faces skepticism, and The Force is no exception. Hat tip to Rey.
Attention blogging community: It's Hammer Time!
Do you have what it takes to help a trio of plucky students Escape from Detention?
What would the Simpsons opening credits look like in real life?
Depeche Mode....in Simlish.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that Old People Are Funny.
Bat and Mouse is one of those quick diversion games, but the music kept me coming back for more.
The Favorite Friend
73% Sexy-Cute, 85% Dark-Light, 56% Artsy-Stylish
Cute, Light, and neither Artsy nor Stylish, she's that friend we've all had. The great girl. The one we've been friends with since the third grade. The one who laughs at our jokes and sends funny text messages. The one with whom we secretly, desperately want to crawl under the covers and spend the next eighteen hours naked.
This test tracked 3 variables. How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 94% on Sexy-Cute
You scored higher than 99% on Dark-Light
You scored higher than 66% on Artsy-Stylish
The Your Type of Girl Test written by dgc20e on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
Charlize Theron
35% Eyes, 28% Nose, 35% Mouth, 45% SexyCute
You seem to prefer that your women be hot rather than cute. Can't blame you for that. You also seem to find smaller or less prominent facial features appealing. Might you be a fan of Charlize Theron? If so, you're certainly not alone.
Similar: Nicole Kidman, Elisha Cuthbert
This test tracked 4 variables. How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 4% on Eyes
You scored higher than 13% on Nose
You scored higher than 11% on Lips
You scored higher than 26% on SexyCute
Link: The Beautiful Faces Test written by dgc20e on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
Do the results of the above two tests contradict? Either way, hat tip to A Golden World for both of them.
Labels: Phantasmic Links
posted by MCF at 11:03 PM
15 Comments:
Oh no. You did NOT say that the 2004 Dawn of the Dead was better than the original. Wow. At least 28 Days Later had the good sense to explain the stupid "fast" zombie theory with the rage disease. I'm going to go cool down now, control my own rage, if you will, and pretend that I didn't read that. I take my zombies very, very seriously.
The Girl Next Door
84% Sexy-Cute, 65% Dark-Light, 58% Artsy-Stylish
Cute, neither Dark nor Light, and neither Artsy nor Stylish. This sounds like a blah category, right? Oh, my, no. The Girl Next Door has been the subject of more dirty fantasies than you could possibly count. She's so sweet, and innocent, and infinitely corruptible. Every morning you glance out your window hoping she'll have forgotten to draw the blinds. You may feel bad about it, but you know you'll be doing it again tomorrow.
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Alyson Hannigan
57% Eyes, 47% Nose, 54% Mouth, 70% SexyCute
You seem to like big eyes and lips, a smaller nose, and a general trend toward cuteness. Awwww... it doesn't get much cuter than Alyson Hannigan, though we're sure she can be sexy when she tries. Best known as Willow from Buffy, and 'that girl from American Pie', Alyson has big eyes, a cute nose, and a big grin.
Similar: Denise Richards (sexier), Mila Kunis (smaller lips)
I'd say that about describes my wife.
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MCF- regarding the link to Natalie Portman, they took the video off due to copyright infringement. Was it her digital video on SNL Saturday Night? If so, that's one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen them do.. I have it on dvd, cuz I tivo'd the show and burned it to disc to keep. It's HYSTERICAL. If someone can tell me how to save it from dvd to my comp as an mp3, I'll be happy to link it on my blog.
BTW, I once spent 2 days with Elisha Cuthbert, working on "The Girl Next Door". Total hottie in person (duh!) and a very, very nice young lady :-)
Uh, I guess I mean mp4.. shows what I know, huh?
wow a depeche mode link from MCF. I'm impressed!
So does that mean you didn't like Rent?
MCF said "I also looked at my uncle's house, since he's selling it to move into an assisted-living apartment. It's an extreme fixer-upper, and I''m not sure what renovations will cost..."
Dude, we bought a fixer-upper. One of the worst decisions we've ever made. We wanted a house, and a we wanted it NOW. So we didn't take into account all the actual fixing-up we'd have to do and how we'd pay for it. Six years later and we are still fixing it up and haven't even begun some of the jobs we wanted to get to right away.
My suggestion: don't make that decision lightly or quickly!
A. I can't believe acclaim for D of the D,2004, either, and why didn,t you rent Shaun of the Dead while you were at it?
B. If you're thinking of your uncle's place, at least make a list of all the things you'd want to fix, priorize and cost it and see if it still appeals
C. Girl next door? 2 words Bore ring.!!!
Kelly: Maybe it's been a while since you've seen Dawn of the Dead? I loved the original, and I liked Day of the Dead with the underground army base. I hadn't seen the original Dawn before this weekend. The new one was terrifying. Lots of gore, jarring camera work, and one particularly shocking moment with a chainsaw. The original starts off with an extemely racist character, which I guess was OK for 1978, and he gets his comeuppance, and we know Romero's cool because he made his hero black in the 60s and that was a big deal then.
My real problem with the film deals with the makeup for one. All the zombies are painted blue. The blood is ridiculously bright and looks like jam. If you jam a screwdriver in someones ear, it will not bubble up some frothy cherry slushy. No I will not say how I know that for certain. ;)
Then there was the film's identity. Was it a zombie movie? A fun spoof like Shaun(which I saw last year and LOVED)? A social commentary? Even dead the mall is the most important place in our lives? The movie had some cool characters but their behavior was inexplicable at times. A montage of everyone "shopping"? And don't forget the gang of bikers fighting off zombies with pies to the face and seltzer bottles. Does that mean zombies fear clowns and Marx brothers? That part was so STUPID. The 2004 one was dead up survival horror. Maybe I would appreciate the original had I seen it when I was younger, but the sequence in which I've seen these films and the age I am now leads me to judge it less forgivingly. And the end run was pretty dumb too. If you want to die, corner yourself in a room, and decide AFTER the helicopter is taking off and zombies stumble in that you want to live, you're an IDIOT. Finally, I was expecting a payoff with the pregnant woman due to what happens in the remake, and it never played out to ANYTHING. So that, in a nutshell, is why I like the remake better. Sorry. Keep the rage down. :)
By the way, I don't think it's Romero's worst zombie movie. I reserve that for Land of the Dead. Did you like that one?
Just to address some of the other comments, that sucks that SNL is cracking down on YouTube. It was the Natalie rap, and it seems even Lazy Sunday is gone. Bummer. I guess instead of all the free publicity, NBC would rather sell the video on IPODs. Thanks for the offer, Dave. I'm not sure how to convert the video though, and dunno if it's worth risking NBC's wrath. Oh well. :(
Kev, Lorna I'm not entering in to the house thing lightly, especially since it's just me. My uncle lived alone, and he couldn't keep up with stuff. Some of it is cosmetic, some paint here, some cracks in the plaster there. The bathroom has a 70s sink and the tiles in the shower have collapsed in. I would have to check the wood for water damage. The roof may leak as there's water damage in the basement, and the house has old duct heating that may leak since it's always cold. Then there are the two big trees in the backyard, with branches hanging over his house and the neighbor's yard. My next course of action is to ascertain what my uncles(he and my mom's oldest brother actually owns it) want for it, find out if I can swing it, and then get an estimate from a contractor, which is all very involved and overwhelming to me. It might be a good investment in the long run, and owning a home sounds better than "lives with parents" on a dating resume, but I still have to think about it.
Lorna, did you mean the movie or the type of girl? I loved the movie, especially when I found out it wasn't the teen sex romp as advertised(not that I would have minded) but that it was about people connecting and showing how outward appearances aren't as important as what's in our hearts. Dave, tell me you were onscreen so I have an excuse to rent it again.
Finally, speaking of Rent(how's that for a segue), I think I did like it Janet, albeit marginally. The songs were catchy and the actors performances were amazing. Jessie Martin was particularly heartbreaking. It was also VERY depressing especially when you consider that while things are resolved in the span of the year in which it takes place, there are still characters with AIDs(cue the song from the Rent spoof in Team America).
I know the message was "No Day but Today" but it's still kind of a fairy tale mentality. There's still tomorrow to deal with. Ultimately I gave it 3 out of 5 stars.
I was at that porn convention scene.. you know, the one where all those young ladies, including Elisha, ran around scantily clad. It was a tough gig! True to the story of my career as a background actor, I didn't really get on screen during that whole shoot, except for one little part that THEY CUT!!! (grrrrr..)
During that scene where Elisha is dancing on the stage and Emile Hirsch tries to get her attention, only to be confronted by the nerdly dude ("Hey, I was here first!") I was standing behind the nerdly dude, but out of the shot.
BTW, Hirsch is a cocky little JERK. He was quite full of himself at that shoot.
A fun technical note- that porn convention scene didn't really take place in Las Vegas, of course. It was actually filmed right in Hollywood at what used to be the DesiLu studios, now called the Ren Mar Studios
.. and the interior where the porn convention is, is actually the sound stage that housed Lucy and Ricky's apartment set many years ago.
Huh, and that kid seemed so nice in the movie too. Actors.
I wonder how many hits a PBW at a porn convention would get in comparison to a comic convention.
MCF: I watched both versions of Dawn of the Dead about 2 years ago, so it hasn't been long at all. (I had only first watch Dawn when I was 20, so it wasn't a nostalgia thing.) Yes, the 2004 version has better makeup. The original had a very tiny budget so they did the best they could. And, I'm sorry to say it, but almost all 70s movies just do not hold up well when it comes to effects and just the overall look. Also, I will agree that the end of the remake was much more effective than the end of the original. That was the only part of the remake that actually gave me a little shiver up the spine.
I think that Romero was trying to incorporate all those things into Dawn. It was a social commentary (more in the vein of the elites - the survivors - ignoring the suffering masses just outside their door; not just "the mall is important"), a (true) zombie movie, and, if not a spoof, just a vehicle for some sight gags. I loved the fact that most of the people only seemed to deal with the situation when they had to. They hoped to ignore it and have it go away. I think many people regress into thought patterns like these when faced with extreme situations. Seemed more real to me.
Now, don't get me wrong, I liked the remake, especially when I didn't think of it as a remake. There were hilarious parts, like shoot-the-zombie-celebrity game. I agree that the remake was gory, and I'm a fan of gore, so that's a plus, but I didn't find it terrifying at all. I just have a real problem with people making zombies supernaturally fast and strong. I said it before and I'll say it again, if you have hordes of super strong and fast zombies, NO ONE is surviving more than ten minutes. It's a ridiculous situation. It works in 28 Days Later because it is people infected with a virus, not zombies, and it would seem that many of the people have died for good, as much of the movie goes on without any monsters anywhere in sight. So I can buy it.
And for every "biker gang with pies and seltzer" you give me, I'll give you a "There was a freaking zombie baby!!" in response. Now that part was horrendous! But I guess you thought it was a good payoff.
I'm certainly not a Romero purist. I thought the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead was better than the original. (See, I'm not opposed to remakes if they're well done.) I enjoyed parts of Land of the Dead for some of the actors, the makeup was the best zombie makeup I have ever seen, and just for the cheese factor (exhibit a: Dennis Hopper hamming it up (unintentionally?); exhibit b: A clown zombie! 'Nuff said!) Otherwise, I was disappointed. And I didn't like Day of the Dead at all.
I guess we just have different expectations from our zombie movies. But the fact that you loved Shaun of the Dead makes me hopeful that you'll come over to the correct side soon. :-)
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